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I have two or three great blue cheese dressing recipes but I felt like trying a new one since it was so highly rated. Even though I added more blue cheese than called for this just seemed to lack something. All my other blue cheese recipes called for buttermilk - so that might be what I miss.

Been making this for years when I BBQ. People are so pleasantly surprised when I ask them if they want a frank, hamburger or a sweet or hot sausage pattie. The sausage seems to be the most popular! I make the pepper and onions the night before (a big batch because people seem to eat it like salad too!). I use those long Italian frying peppers - they are so sweet and I season the peppers and onions with Goya seasoning while they cook. You can find the patties premade in the meat section of your supermarket. - I also just use large hamburger buns - toast them on the grill!!!

I almost gave it 4 stars because the taste of rum was powerful - but then realized it was my fault. I only had dark rum on hand and used that. Therefore it kind of overpowered the mocha taste. I will make it again using light rum and might try using half vanilla ice cream and half coffee. Thanks submitter.

5 Star plus. Only changes were based on other reviewers. I used half ice and half vanilla ice cream and also used vanilla vodka. MMMMMM good! Spent $55.00 in the liquor store getting the ingredients but it was worth it!

I doubled the recipe for 4 and it served 6 people. I didn't have frozen corn on hand so I used a good quality canned corn (15.25 oz cans - drained thoroughly) and added the corn during the last five minutes just to heat it through. The soup was delicious but the only negative comment was that it was too thin. If I make it again I will thicken it since my family seems to think when I say "chowder" they want a creamier texture. Thank you submitter.

I feel badly about giving this such a low rating after all previous reviewers gave it 5 stars. I give it 5 stars for the taste of the sauce and for the tenderness of the pork but unfortunately for all of us we thought the meat itself was tasteless. This was easy to make but if I ever use this again I would put some kind of rub or seasoning on it before baking it. My favorite ribs on this site are Freak'n Good Ribs and Baby Back Ribs - both must be marinated ahead of time - but it is so worth the wait!!!

Loved it. I cut this recipe in half and one large onion was ENOUGH. I also decided to take the previous reviewer's advice and add in the juice from the canned pineapple. If I had served it immediately it would have been too watery, but I served it the next day and the texture was perfect. This does make a spicy chili so the pineapple does take a bit of the edge off. This is a keeper! My guy loved it.

It was a hit - didn't change a thing. Update: If you are watching calories you might want to switch to this one. I've made so many of the strawberry spinach salads from this site and love them but I'm using this one now because of the calories (or lack of them). I even halved the sugar in this and used raspberry vinegar and it is still wonderfully sweet. Thanks submitter.

I have three favorite potato salads from this site but decided to try this one to start the 2007 summer. We loved it and made minimal changes. To make this quickly - first start cooking the eggs - then take out the large bowl that you will be using to serve - I peel and dice the potatoes and rinsed them in that bowl to get out starch - put potatoes in cold water and bring to boil - then lower heat to a slow boil and cook approx. 10 to 15 min. Your eggs will probably be finised by then so cool them down with cold water. Then mix all the ingredients for dressing in the bowl - add the chopped eggs and by then your potatoes are probably ready to add. Very little clean up and no waiting time for things to be done - I added a tablespoon of ground mustard to dressing and only used 2 eggs but that is just a preference. I thought this turned out great and it was fast.

I chose this dish because of all the high ratings - although almost everyone had to make changes. I too HAD to make changes and was glad I had the advice of others to follow. I cut the cheese in half and it was more than enough - I cut the eggs back to 6 and the amount of half and half to a cup. I was using deep dish pie crusts. If I hadn't done all that cutting back it would have been a mess and I would have been throwing out a lot of the ingredients. I didn't use salt and I'm glad I didn't. The smoked ham had enough of a salt taste. All in all - with all the changes that had to be made I think I will explore other quiches to try before I would make this again.

I agree with other reviewers about the amount of liquid. I had drained the canned pineapple but at the end added the juice back in - it would have been too dry without it. I also added a small can of fruit cocktail as others suggested.

This was ok - I tasted the flour and I always seem to taste it when I mix the flour and milk together and just add it to the butter - I prefer making a roux and then add the cheese, etc. The combination of the feta and bacon we nice.

We loved it - especially the taste of the cumin and the balsamic vinegar. I did cut back on the beans by one can and used a combination of chili powder and habenaro chili powder - so needless to say my chili was not mild. We did taste the sweetness of the chili but it was appreciated because of the heat from the chili powders and hot paprika. Thanks submitter.